Ray Ison, Professor in Systems at the UK Open University since 1994, is a member of the Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group. From 2008-15 he also developed and ran the Systemic Governance Research Program at Monash University, Melbourne. In this blog he reflects on contemporary issues from a systemic perspective.

Monday, February 19, 2018

"that the first module of the systems thinking course I mentioned we were developing is now available online at UTS OPEN. It’s ISF’s first ever online course and is one of the first four UTS courses available to the general
public free of charge. We’ve tried not to replicate all the good work that’s already out there including the OU’s course
and are hoping to offer some different angles on systems thinking. Let
us know what you think if you get a chance to have a look at it.
The course is an introduction or ’tastercourse' on systems
thinking and you can find it here at this link https://open.uts.edu.au/systemsthinking.html . We will hopefully be developing
another 4 modules to complete this course (dependent on further funding).

Please
feel free to share the link with anyone who might be interested. This
is still a ‘soft launch’ phase and we can still make improvements to the
course and would really appreciate
any honest and constructive feedback on how we can further improve it. As this is only a ‘taster’ module it is meant to get people interested in systems thinking and wanting more. "

Ben Sweeting gave a plenary presentation at the
Relating Systems Thinking and Design conference in Oslo, in October 2017, on
Cybernetics, Virtue Ethics and Design. It is available from the proceedings and includes a video recording, which features live sketch notes from playthink.com